Book photo shoot for etsy update

Wow! It is just been over a month since I started blogging and I really feel like I am starting to get more and more addicted everyday. I find myself daydreaming about things I want to do, create and be and seems like Spring is fast arriving look what I found today.


First and foremost, I want to say Thank You! To all of my blog followers. I feel blessed that anyone would want to read my thought process because for most of you that know me I am all over the place.

I made a couple more sales on etsy this week. As with everything I make and create now, I take photos so here are couple for you to enjoy.

(Don't forget to keep strolling down, my sister and I went out on an adventure, and not thrifting)

First off how do you package a ring in something other than a box....this took some creativity....so I took some of my old journal page remnant rolled them up and put the ring on it.



Next I sewed the yellow paper on to this card stock. Tied on my signature etsy Thank You Card, and then tied the ring onto the card as well. I think it came out so darling!


This is one of my journals I sent out today. I try and make everything I send out a little different and unique.



Speaking of journals. I decided today that the photos of my remaining journals were...well to be a little blunt...they were sad :(

So in turn decided to take my journals for a photoshoot into the park nearest my house and here are some of my favorites. If you want to see more check out my etsy shop.

The faves

This last photo is so bizarre to me, because it looks edited, when all I did was hang it over a tree branch and lay down on the ground to photograph it. I love how it turned out though!

So check out my new journal photos, and maybe one of these journals will speak to you.

New adventures

It looks like new adventures are on the horizon for me, at least that is the dream.

I have come to a spot where I don't have any excuse not to be a fulltime crafter, because....

I work very part time and my mac just crashed, so I have more time on my hands so that I am not distracted by facebook or the internet, although most of the time I truly am using it for research. ;)

I grew up thrifting with my mom and grandma, before it was ever cool. We ate organic, bought in bulk, I always immersed myself in my art to create a world to escape to.

I have come to the conclusion that life is a masterpiece that we all paint. We can create something beautiful around us, or get overwhelmed with the troubles and things that can bog us down.

I think I heard a quote once that said, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." For me this has helped take the pressure off myself. I want to do something in the world, something big, not for fame or celebrity. But to affect in my lifetime something.

I think the change I want to bring is through my art.

If I can bring a journal into someone's life that causes that person to write down their innermost feelings, thoughts, experiences and document them... then I have affected change.

If I can redo a piece of furniture, that makes a monochromatic home feel alive.. I can affect change.

If I create a piece of art, that makes someone smile...I can affect change.

If I give and put love into every piece I create or find, then that person will feel that love.

My friend Courtney said, "How a photographer sees you is how the picture will turn out." I believe that as an artist the emotion that you are connecting with what you are making is evoked.

Okay I just had to get that all that out there....it's late and thoughts swirling in my head like a carousel...

I decided to be a better artist, designer, creator, etc that there are a few things that I need to tackle.

First and foremost.

I am deathly afraid of zippers, have never known how to put one in correctly every time I have they came out bad. So that is a goal this year is to learn how to put one in. I think I may even have to create this amazing zipper flower I found.




I want to do three photo shoots a year, not wanting to model necessarily but create the setting and all the objects within the photoshoot.

Here is one of my past shoots, in another blog, you may have seen.


I absolutely know that I need to learn to screen print. I want to create my own textiles.

For now I am focusing, on working on creating, seeking and gathering things to make my etsy shop all that I hope it could be.

Here are some more fun finds:






Oh yes I am also working on creating my official logo right now, with my fabulous friend Courtney Jade. That should be finished by next week.

But for now check out some more packaging for the items I sell.

Preliminary Whimsy Blue branding

I have so far sold a couple items in my etsy shop. If you have not checked it out yet, we just added some vintage housewares and will be adding more very soon! Especially after yesterdays adventure.

Anyways, back to the topic of the day. (I am an artist, so I get a little bit scattered at times...my mind is like a merry go round of ideas, the solution for this is to always have a sketchbook, pad of paper, napkin or journal)

Upon making my first sale, I had an idea of what to do with the remains of my vintage books that I used for the journals. This was all experimental as well. I really had no idea if this would work. So I took six pages from the journals original binding and sewed them together with some fun blue thread.

I then was deciding to wrap the book, and cut the edges so that the book provided a little peekaboo at the end. I found some stamps to create the words in what other then blue ink. (Soon we will have our own logo stamp!!!! So exciting!)) I then grabbed the dainty, blue ribbon that we have, and had my sister tie the ribbon because for whatever reason I have no idea how to do so!!

Here are some of the end result photos, I hope you all like. Maybe I will put a little DIY post documenting how I did it all for you!!! Let me know what you think!